Having a Baby My Way by Pat (1972) A woman describes having
her baby at home with the help of the Chicago Maternity Center, the
legendary home birthing center formerly located on Chicago's Westside.

Save the Chicago Maternity Center by WATCH (1972) WATCH- Women
Act To Control Healthcare, led a campaign to try to save the Chicago
Maternity Center which offered safe home birth services to Chicago's
impoverished west side.

WATCH Demands (1972) WATCH- Women Act To Control Healthcare,
led a campaign to try to save the Chicago Maternity Center which offered
safe home birth services to Chicago's impoverished west side. These
were their demands.

Rape (1972) Rape became a major feminist issue and anti-rape
programs sprang up across the country.

35%
of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized by the Committee for Puerto
Rican Decolonization (undated-but probably late 1970's) An expose of
the
reproductive policies pursued by the Puerto Rican authorities in collusion
with the US government and US corporations.

A
View from the Loop ( Late 1970's)
An excellent introduction to the women's health movement in Chicago
from 1969-1975. The
Jenny Knauss Collection (1986) Jenny Knauss donated her personal
files of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) and feminist health-related
material to the McCormick Library at Northwestern University in 1986.
You may browse through an inventory of the 9 boxes of documents. The
inventory is in Adobe Acrobat format. You may obtain the free Acrobat
Reader HERE.

The
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health: A History (2002)
Former CWLU health activist Jenny Knauss was Executive Director
of the Caucus from 1983-2002, working tirelessly on behalf of
Illinois young people. The Caucus is a good example of the kind
of grassroots health organization that CWLU health activists
had advocated.